OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 11, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Edward M. Egan of Bridgeport, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of New York (area 12,212, population 5,254,300, Catholics 3,000,000, priests 2,053, permanent deacons 264, religious 5,414), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Oak Park, U.S.A., in 1932, ordained a priest in 1957 and consecrated a bishop in 1985. From 1964 to 1968 he was vice-chancellor of the archdiocese of Chicago, from 1972 to 1985 he was a judge in the Roman Rota and from May 1985 to November 1988, he was auxiliary of New York.

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